Incredibles 2 Delivers a Record Setting $180 Million Opening

The Incredibles 2 was, well, incredible at the weekend box office. The film had an amazing opening shattering the previous record for the opening of an animated film but it’s also one of the top ten openings of all-time.

Incredibles 2 earned an estimated $180 million which beat Finding Dory‘s $135 million opening, the previous best opening for an animated film. That total is te eighth largest opening of all time beating 2016’s Captain America: Civil War‘s $179.1 million.

Internationally, the brough in an estimated $51.5 million from about 26% of the international market. That’s a global total of $231.5 million.

The film earned an “A+” CinemaScore and everything says this film will likely cross $500 million domestically.

Ocean’s 8 dropped to second place with an etimated $19.6 million to bring its domestic total to $79.2 million and $116.3 million worldwide so far.

Tag debuted in third place with an estimated $14.6 million. The film was slightly below expectations. Internationally the film eaned $1.4 million in seven markets.

In fourth place was Solo: A Star Wars Story which earned an estimated $9.1 million to bring its domestic total to $192.8 million. Internationally the film earned $5.2 million to bring its worldwide total to $339.5 million.

Rounding out the top five was Deadpool 2 which earned an estimated $8.8 million to bring its domestic total to $294.7 million. The film also added $9.8 million internationally and has now earned $689.5 million worldwide. The film is now withing $100 million of the original. It’s overperforming the original overseas where it has earned 57.3% of its grosses compared to 53.6% for the original.

In other comic movie news…

Avengers: Infinity War came in at #8 for the weekend adding an estimated $5.3 million to its domestic total. The film has earned $644.2 million domestically. The film crossed the $2 billion mark, the fourth film ever to do so, and has earned $2.020 billion.

Black Panther slipped one spot to come in at #26 and added $147,000 to bring its domestic total to $699.6 million after 18 weeks. Worldwide the film has earned $1.346 billion.

We’ll be back in an hour to dive deeper into the numbers of 2018’s comic film adaptations.


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